The curve of love, the tragic curve

‘… the fundamental curve of love, I suppose.  It is the curve of all human powers (disregarding the plateau of learning, the checks upon decline) and it seems to be the curve of sexual excitement and discharge, which is after all the physical core of life.  What is this curve?  It is the fundamental path of any projectile…

                                                        

                                                                                                                    Norman Mailer

At birth I was hurled

outward

against my will.

As if the continuum

of a tragic curve.

Girded with motion

I pursued

the straight and narrow

till death demanded

my geometry rounded.

Against

the Great Resistance

that natural inertia

I spent

my resources

to straighten an increasing

curve

Only to fall short

and settle my wings

broken and tired.

To land inevitable

a lone flyer.

Now to find you here

at the target of

my parabola

Brings new hope

to pursue

the curve of love

To spiral with you

till ascension is

commanding

Would shout defiance

at universes laws

To display manifold

geometry

in arms and legs

intertwined.

To create the tetrahedral

un-needful of support

always firm and sound.

Our close heat

would warm to a start-burst

and give courage

to those inertia bound.

Give meaning to this

tragic curve

as I would have my life

spent

for something more than fate

As I would be

something more than

a stone hurled at a target

Only your love could

reconcile me

to this curve

Yet only love

will free me from

this endless curving

I make.